THE YOUNG NATUEALIST. 



OONTRIBUTIONS TOWARDS 

 T>HE FAUNA OF PLYMOUTH. 



By Mr. G. C. Bignell, M.E.S. 



(Reprinted by permission of the author from the 

 Transactions of the Plymouth Institution and Devon 

 and Cornwall Natural History Society, 1881.) 



HYMENOPTERA, ICHNEUMONID.E. 



Areanged according to the Rev. T. A. Marshall's Cata- 

 logue, published by the Entomological Society of 

 London, 1872. 



Part I. 



■ (Continued from Vol. 2, page 363.^ 



LiMNERIA. — 

 alhida. Bred from Gonepteryx rJiamni 

 difformis. Bred 8th May, 1879. 

 fenestralis. Bred from JBotys verticalis. 

 majalis. Bred from an old Oak-Gall 



( Cynips hollari.) 

 mcesta. Bred from Hytemia prog emm aria 



and defoliaria. 

 ohscurella. Bred from Hemitliea tliy- 



miaria. 



unicincta. Bred from Eupetlieda red- 



angiilata, and lomasjnUs marginata. 

 luguhrMia. This is a new British species 

 which I bred from (Ecopliora fiavimacu- 

 lella, feeding on the flowers of the wild 

 carrot growing on the cliffs under the 

 . citadel (1879). 



interrupta (Holingr.) New British species 



captured 15th May, 1880. 

 vulgaris. New British species, captured. 

 clausa. New British species; bred from 



Hylernia p^Qg&mmmia 

 aarljonaria. Tii-is is a new British species 



which I bred from Cidaria pyraliata. 

 Mesochorus. — This genus appear to be 



hyperparasites. 

 gracilentus. This is a new British species 



which I bred from Gonepteryx rliamni 



larva, and I believe it to be a hyper- 



parasite on lAmneria alhida. 

 aericans. Bred from Exorista vulgaris 



pupa (a dipteron), out of Adraxas gross - 



nlariata larva, 

 fulgurans. Bred from a Casinaria vidua 



pupa, out oi Abraxas grossulariata larva. 



seniirufus. Bred from Eupitheda casti- 

 gata. 



sylvarum. Bred from Apanteles cocoons 



out of Vanessa atalanta larva. 

 olerum. Bred from Casinaria vidua pupa, 



out of Abraxas grossulariata larva. 



EXETASTES. — 



fornicator. 



osculatorius. Bred from Mamesira bras- 



siccB. 

 calobatus. 

 albitursus. 

 Banchus. — 

 pictus. Bred from Selenia iUmiaria, 15th 



March. 1881. 

 falcator. 

 Mesoleptus. — 

 testaceus. Bred from Enpethecia casti-. 

 gata. 



ECLYTUS. — 



omatus. Bred from Tortrix lieparana. j 

 Mesoleius. — i 

 hamulus. Maker, 5th June, 1880. I 



(To he continued.} 



RANDOM NOTSS ON 

 BRITISH REPTILES. 



By J. Osborne. 



A Toad in Stone. 



The favourable comments of Mr. Gregson, 

 on my paper on The Mole, have encouraged 

 me to pen a few notes on such of the British 

 Reptiles, as I have had opportunities of 

 observing ; and I hope I will not lose all 

 character for speaking the truth, when I 

 begin by saying that I have seen a toad thafc 

 was dug out of solid rock. I know that., 

 many hold the tales told of frogs and toads,, 

 imprisoned for centuries, or even longe^^•; 

 periods, in solid stone, or in the hearts oc- 

 trees, to be rnere fictions. Experiment^, 

 have been made by scientific men that prove 

 conclusively enough the impossibility of 

 such things, if they were not almost self- 



